Aiko Mimasu Movies

A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman.

1962 Japanese movie

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected...

A child who was taken in and raised by a woman from a once-impoverished traveling theater troupe grows up to be a beautiful young woman and performs...

The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period.

In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a...

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...